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Obsevatory - Bruce Allan 1988.A staircase to transport you up into the canopy of the trees and observ...
House - Miles Davies 1988.A tall house, as tall as the trees that surround it - reaching high above t...
Raw - Neville Gabie 2001. An entire oak tree, planted in 1800's to provide timber for warships, and f...
Place - Magdalena Jetelova 1986. You will first glimpse this gigantic chair as you leave Beechenhurst...
Hanging Fire - Cornelia Parker 1986. Locally smelted iron ore has been formed into rings of flames hi...
A composite of several shots taken at the Wyedean Forest Rally - there aren't normally that many cars...
Dead Wood - Bois Mort - Carole Drake 1995.Places of burial and concealment are suggested by these fiv...
Melissa's Swing - Peter Appleton 1986. An engaging work which plays on the familiarity of hanging swi...
Black Dome - David Nash 1986, Originally a dome made by packing together 900 pieces of charred larch,...
Iron Road - Keir Smith 1986.Twenty carved jarrah wood railway sleepers remind us of the train line th...
Europe is generally agreed to be the birthplace of western culture, including such legendary innovations as the democratic nation-state, football and tomato sauce.
The word Europe comes from the Greek goddess Europa, who was kidnapped by Zeus and plunked down on the island of Crete. Europa gradually changed from referring to mainland Greece until it extended finally to include Norway and Russia.
Don't be confused that Europe is called a continent without looking like an island, the way the other continents do. It's okay. The Ural mountains have steadily been there to divide Europe from Asia for the last 250 million years. Russia technically inhabits "Eurasia".
Europe is presently uniting into one political and economic zone with a common currency called the Euro. The European Union originated in 1993 and is now composed of 27 member states. Its headquarters is in Brussels, Belgium.
Do not confuse the EU with the Council of Europe, which has 47 member states and dates to 1949. These two bodies share the same flag, national anthem, and mission of integrating Europe. The headquarters of the Council are located in Strasbourg, France, and it is most famous for its European Court of Human Rights.
In spite of these two bodies, there is still no single Constitution or set of laws applying to all the countries of Europe. Debate rages over the role of the EU in regards to national sovereignty. As of January 2009, the Lisbon Treaty is the closest thing to a European Constitution, yet it has not been approved by all the EU states.
Text by Steve Smith.
